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True Path is either a techno-thriller or a science-fiction thriller, depending on the reader. Whatever label chosen, technology, in the form of time-travel, is a big part of the story. True Path is a sequel to the very good Timesplash, which showed the awesome destructive powers of time-travel.   In Timesplash, author Graham Storrs, came up with a truly original take on the effects of going back in time and changing events. Time would rebound from any changes, correcting them. Depending on the magnitude of the changes, a backwash would hit the present time epicentre where the changes occurred. In Timesplash the people using the time-machines were thrill-seekers. Their  search for bigger and greater thrills created increasingly devastating backwashes. In True Path the thrillseekers are replaced by terrorists. But this is no cliché as the terrorists aren’t Arab Muslims, instead they are American Christians.   The main characters from Timesplash, time agent Jay and th...

I finally saw Gravity - in 3D too - and I was impressed. The movie is set in orbit around the Earth where a group of astronauts are updating the Hubble Telescope. Unfortunately for them, those irresponsible Russians decide to destroy one of their own satellites and its debris cause havoc. From there on we follow the astronauts as they tried to survive. Gravity stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Don’t let Bullock’s presence put you off as she gives one of her more subdued performances. She doesn’t do a Nicole Kidman, who managed to destroyed not one, but two science fiction movies ( Invasion and The Stepford Wives ). Gravity is one of the most visually impressive science fiction movies ever made. Probably not since District 9 have I seen such a seamless incorporation of special effects into a movie. In that movie all the aliens looked real, unlike Avatar . In Gravity I never found myself thinking that doesn’t look like space. Gravity’s writer/director, Alfon...

What a lousy week, so much pain. A toothache - of all things - lead an assault by every inflammation in my body. From my swimmer’s knees, tight hamstrings, sore lower back, to my aching elbows and big toes. And to top that off, the eye on the side of the swollen tooth root ached too. Last week I was a supernova of inflammation. My subconscious was not too rapt in the havoc my tooth caused too, because this morning, while sleeping I whacked the still swollen cheek with my hand. That sure did wake me up. Fortunately, antibiotics have started to reduce the swelling. So this week was not a week of writing a new article for Divine, finishing reading a couple of books, catching up on my newspaper reading, and perhaps even finishing the first draft of my latest novel. Instead, it was a daze of pain, lack of sleep and painkillers.   New Article on Asperger’s   But one good thing did happen, I had another article posted on the Divine website . This one is about a pane...

Seven weeks ago I blogged that I was hopefully embarking on a new career as a copywriter at a local radio station. I thought I was going to be doing a few weeks trial and then they would decide whether to keep me on. That was at least what my job provider told me, but the radio station had different ideas. They only ever planned to give me a couple of weeks work experience. I had the attitude that I would treat it as a learning experience and learn everything I could about copywriting. I turned up ready and raring to go at the start of September and I was told that my start date would be postponed for two weeks. For those two weeks I waited for the call telling me the whole thing had been called off. But two weeks later I turned up for my first day. The copywriter was busy, announcing, so the producer asked me to write some community service announcements. The first one I wrote started with a question, and I was told, don’t start with a question as it is too easy for t...